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March 12, 2006

The Numbers Game

JT Snow is wearing #84 -- the uniform number worn by his father, Jack Snow, during his football career with the Los Angeles Rams.

When Snow gets into a game next month, it will be the highest number worn by a Red Sock player during the regular season. The current highest number? #82, worn by Johnny Lazor in 1943 (also that year, Lou Lucier wore #81).

The lowest number that has never been worn? 64!

Also: Only eight players have worn #13. It's the fewest number of players for any number under 50 (no one wore it from 1940-1984). That includes #9; nine players wore that number, including Bobby Doerr, who later had his more famous #1 retired.

2 comments:

Click there for the thread I started on 1/17/04 on Royal Rooters about Lucier and Lazor. (I got 7 responses, none of which had anything to do with what I was talking about.)

While on vacation in Seattle later that year, I found a newspaper from the forties with a headline about Lazor. He had starred in a game for the Sox, but th estory was a big one in the Seattle paper because he'd played semi-pro ball in the Pacific Northwest. But it gave clues as to why his number was so high.